The deadline passes and Great Sioux War begins between the U.S. and the Sioux and Cheyenne tribes. On June 25, 1876, Custer and the 7th Cavalry are overwhelmingly defeated at the Battle of Little ...

After the Civil War, thousands of Americans poured into the Great Plains on a collision course with western Indian tribes.

Irish immigrant John Finerty (1846-1908), landed in the United States in time to see some service in the Civil War. Postwar, he became a newspaper reporter, and in 1876 he covered the “Great Sioux War ...

leading to the Great Sioux war of 1876 and Custer’s Last Stand.” The south of the Territory great exponentially by 1880 while ...

Deep in south-central Montana, just off Route 212, lies Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument, the site where 263 soldiers from the U.S. Army’s 7th Cavalry fought thousands of Sioux and ...

During the Civil War, in Wyoming, horse dealers Joan Britton and Stephen Cook are competing to supply the Union Army with horses. A Cherokee is in the area to stir up the Sioux against the Union ...

During World War II cultivation of hemp was encouraged ... usual deprivation to the reduced reservations of the Great Plains. (The Great Sioux Reservation had been chopped up into six smaller ...

History: Reviews of New Books "Ostler's book provides a fascinating reexamination of major events in nineteenth-century Plains Sioux history." - Great Plains Quarterly "Jeffrey Ostler provides a new ...

as the No. 7 is sacred to Očéti Šakówiŋ Oyate (Seven Council Fires), referred to by settlers as the “Great Sioux Nation.” This year’s overarching theme was “Seven Generations ...

SIOUX CITY — Goodwill of the Great Plains' new nearly $13 million adult day habilitation and job center is going up on Sioux City's west side and expected to open to the public in early spring.